Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis